A treatise upon gravel and upon gout : in which their sources and connection are ascertained : with an examination of Dr. Austin's theory of stone, and other critical remarks. A dissertation on the bile and its concretions, and an enquiry into the operation of solvents / by Murray Forbes, member of the Surgeon's Company.

  • Forbes, Murray, active 18th century.
Date:
MDCCXCIII. [1793]
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Credit: A treatise upon gravel and upon gout : in which their sources and connection are ascertained : with an examination of Dr. Austin's theory of stone, and other critical remarks. A dissertation on the bile and its concretions, and an enquiry into the operation of solvents / by Murray Forbes, member of the Surgeon's Company. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    UPON GRAVEL, &c. INTRODUCTION. THERE are few difeafes from which greater furTerings are endured, than from urinary con- cretions; yet, notwithftanding their frequency, very little has been known concerning the cir- Cumftances which produce them, or the means by which they may be prevented. In proof of this afTertion, witnefs the very painful and dangerous operations that are daily put in practice for the extraction of flones. Calculi in the bladder, re- garded with refpect to the agonies they occafion, and the means by which they have commonly been removed, may be enumerated among the mofc heavy of human infirmities. The nature of man is not expofed to many inflictions of greater feverity. B The